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...another truck behind it on a steel cable. Either the brakes had failed or the drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through...
...Kusadasi. She rented a dilapidated villa which her money and Baldwin's muscle soon made habitable, and he moved in. Together Baldwin and Rodd are teaching beekeepers in the area the intricacies of extracting royal jelly from their hives for use in medicines. Baldwin operates Rodd's motorboat for charter, two months ago used it on a mercy mission to rescue a Turkish soldier with a mangled hand at a coastal post inaccessible by land...
From Russia with Love includes a healthy serving of such details, but now they are bound up in situations. For example, Bond recognizes a SPECTRE agent when the boor orders red wine with fish. The motorboat chase gains tremendously when an overhead shot reveals several SPECTRE boats closing in on Bond's boat from all directions. In this way the thrill of the speedboat becomes frosting rather than the cake itself...
Residential and recreational areas will be woven together so closely that some Restonians will be able to chip onto a nearby green from their patio, others to watch their horses grazing a few steps away, still others cast off from their own bulkheads, motorboat across the lake, and moor a few feet away from their favorite store. Its houses will be built around dead-end streets, thus keeping children well away from hurtling through-traffic. Because no part of any village will be more than ten minutes away by foot, most travel will be confined to tree-lined walkways...
...youths roamed the area, yelling "Viva la constitutión! Viva Bosch!" "Let the Yankees come and get us," snarled one submachine gun-toting rebel. All through the week snipers continued to flit from house to house, pecking away at U.S. troops hemming them in. One night a rebel motorboat in the Ozama River made life difficult for the 82nd Airborne. "Eventually," explained a laconic paratroop captain, "we got tired of that, so we sank it." In other action, the paratroopers blasted another motorboat and set fire to the freighter Santo Domingo, which rebels were using as a sniper...